In the majority of societies, men and women emphasize the importance of gender equity to achieve the same opportunities for...
Community Voices
Spreading rumors about an imminent financial collapse is short-sighted. It would harm the average Lebanese citizen while ironically emboldening rather than undermining the country's ruling class.
Lebanon’s Director of the Internal Security Forces Anti-Cybercrime and Intellectual Property Rights Bureau Maj. Suzan Hajj Hobeiche was fired on Monday after liking a tweet that mocked Saudi women. The tweet by Lebanese producer Charbel Khalil mocked the recent royal decree that permitted women in Saudi Arabia their basic right...
Stephen Paddock, a white 64 year old man, killed at least 50 people at a Las Vegas music festival this...
To the resentment of many (myself included), Doueiri resided eleven months in Israel for the purpose of directing his 2012...
Last week, Hamas, the ruling Islamic faction in Gaza, asked the Palestinian National Authority (PNA)’s President Mahmoud Abbas to resume control over the Gaza Strip. Though this seems like a momentous movement away from the hostility between Fatah and Hamas to potentially bridging a union between the West Bank and...
Easing the long-standing driving restriction would benefit more than 7 million Saudi women of working age, a quarter of the country's population.
I graduated from high school after 15 years of schooling and learning from patient, dedicated, cultured individuals. This allowed me...
Mexican food produced outside Mexico differs exponentially from what is actually consumed in Mexico. This is mainly due to the fact that we rarely eat the hard tacos (they don’t exist) nor the yellow cheese. Even if we do eat yellow corn, we don’t usually prepare it with our tacos....
As women, we need to normalize our presence in this vital urban space, and we need to shift the terms of debate from fears over our safety to a shared commitment to our right to the city.
Encountering Westerners in Beirut is just as common as facing traffic in Ras Beirut. Within these encounters, conversations take place,...
Lebanon was recently struck with the devastating loss of eight of its soldiers who were held captive by Islamic State militants over three years ago in the outskirts of Arsal. Hussein Youssef, father of the martyr Mohammed Youssef, writes to his late son: “1120 perfectly full days, in all their...